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to understand how to compete against OSS, we must target a
process rather than a company

OSS is long-term credible ... FUD tactics can not be used to
combat it

Linux and other OSS advocates are making a progressively more
credible argument that OSS software is at least as robust ¨C if
not more ¨C than commercial alternatives

Linux can win as long as services / protocols are
commodities

OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server
applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized,
simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing
new protocols, we can deny OSS projects entry into the
market

The ability of the OSS process to collect and harness the
collective IQ of thousands of individuals across the Internet is
simply amazing. More importantly, OSS evangelization scales with
the size of the Internet much faster than our own evangelization
efforts appear to scale